Ballads, Songs, and Snatches: The Appropriation of Folk Song and Popular Culture in British Nineteenth-century Realist ProseAshgate, 1999 - 221 páginas As a book on allusion, this has interest for both the traditional literary or cultural historian and for the modern student of textuality and readership positions. It focuses on allusion to folksong, and, more tangentially, to popular culture, areas which have so far been slighted by literary critics. In the nineteenth century many authors attempted to mediate the culture(s) of the working classes for the enjoyment of their predominantly middle-class audiences. In so doing they took songs out of their original social and musical contexts and employed a variety of strategies which - consciously or unconsciously - romanticised, falsified or denigrated what the novels or stories claimed to represent. In addition, some writers who were well-informed about the cultures they described used allusion to song as a covert system of reference to topics such as sexuality and the criticism of class and gender relations which it was difficult to discuss directly. |
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... Lavengro ) but he enjoys the power this gives him and the element of mystification that remains . Borrow was unique as a novelist in actually possessing a working knowledge of Romany , as well as of a large number of other languages ...
... Lavengro ) but he enjoys the power this gives him and the element of mystification that remains . Borrow was unique as a novelist in actually possessing a working knowledge of Romany , as well as of a large number of other languages ...
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... Lavengro , by reflection and analogy . " 36 Although it was published in 1851 , Lavengro is set in the world of the 1820s , as is made obvious from the references to Cobbett , the return of Byron's remains , and the debate over Catholic ...
... Lavengro , by reflection and analogy . " 36 Although it was published in 1851 , Lavengro is set in the world of the 1820s , as is made obvious from the references to Cobbett , the return of Byron's remains , and the debate over Catholic ...
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... Lavengro's fascination with Danish ballads , in which , significantly , the society in which he is trying to earn a living will take no interest . They represent the heroic world of the past which he had originally encountered through ...
... Lavengro's fascination with Danish ballads , in which , significantly , the society in which he is trying to earn a living will take no interest . They represent the heroic world of the past which he had originally encountered through ...
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Scott | 12 |
Scotts Contemporaries | 51 |
Scotts Legacy and Three Muscular Christians | 62 |
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